Getting Lost - Episode 2.13 “The Long Con”
Posted February 9, 2006 at 12:26 pm by Spamalot
After going 2 weeks without any new LOST, we were all scratching our arms like Charlie, waiting for our next fix. After this week’s episode, we should all feel satisfied like Hurley after his fifth trip to the buffet table.
Warning: Spoilers Follow
The last new episode was sort of a snooze-fest, but this week made up for it. The flashbacks featured Sawyer teaching his frumpy girlfriend how to con, and ultimately being forced to take her for everything she had–600 Large to be exact. 0WNED by the one you love… what a shame.
The episode weaves the flashback with what ends up being an elaborate con on the whole island. Sun is planting aloe when she gets black-bagged by an unknown kidnapper who leaves her unconscious in the jungle. Everyone thinks it’s the others except for Sawyer, who convinces Kate that Ana-Lucia did it to get Jack to start an all out war on Zeke and his hillbilly homeboys.
To make a long story short… Jack, Locke and Kate end up with egg on their faces and Sawyer ends up with all the guns. Later on, Charlie approaches Sawyer looking allot like Anakin Skywalker after he turned ot the Darkside.(Definitely intentional, IMO) It turns out that Charlie was the one who black-bagged Sun, and that he did it to make Locke “Look like a fool”. He also turns down the heroin when Sawyer offers it to him. Interesting.
So now we’ve got Charlie and Sawyer vs. Jack and Locke. Things are getting good.
I predict sometime in the next few weeks Ana-Lucia is gonna put Sawyer in a chicken wing to make him give up the guns. She would totally pwn him!
Some interesting tidbits from this episode
- Kate’s Mom served Sawyer and his partner in the diner
- After LOST, I flipped the channel to Law & Order and Jack’s Father was the guest star, playing what else but an over-demanding father! He got typecasted!
Next week–The crazy french chick returns. YAY!
February 9th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
ok, yeah. can’t say i saw any of THAT coming. a few of my theories took a crap and died last night. the whole Sheriff Sawyer thing is gonna last all of ten seconds. Charlie and Sawyer are two desperate idiots. their little situation is gonna crumble. they might save the Charlie/Sun revelation til later. just know that when it comes out Jin is gonna whup. his. butt. doesn’t look like Charlie is gonna get the redemption he needs. i think that’s kinda sad, because i liked his “nice guy” character a lot. anyway, that mess will unravel or take a back seat next episode. because it looks like a LOT of crazy crap is gonna go down. A captured Other! Sayid, the Torturer! Rousseau! SAWYER! HURLEY! The TIMER hits ZERO [if this is a dream sequence i will have a full-on tantrum]! Oh, and as for the “Long Con,” Saywers backround story. pretty twisty. i don’t think i fully registered what was going on because i was watching the Grammys at the same time. i wonder if he killed that dude in the diner to get away. did he give her part of the loot? fake loot? i wonder if he decides to go meet her anyway. i’m a lil mixed up. time to surf the boards for clarification. I love this show.
February 9th, 2006 at 3:09 pm
Yeah, the timer hitting ZERO, wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut. I’m dying to know what happens!
Jin is gonna put Charlie in ICU… which on the island means Jack sweating over you and sticking your leg in a door to amputate it while babbling something about being your messiah. LOL.
As for the Sawyer story, he was forced to con his girlfriend to save both their lives. If he didn’t take her money, his partner would’ve put both Sawyer and his woman in matching pine boxes.
He is most assuredly *not* going to meet her since he really stole her 600K, and doing something like that kind of puts a damper on a relationship.
Last week I predicted Charlie getting redeemed too… that’s definitely *not* going to happen either. Bites…
February 9th, 2006 at 3:26 pm
Nah Sawyer took Cassidy for 600 Large. Get your wiseguy slang right, spammy. :p
Yeah I agree was quite an episode. Ana Lucia is crazy. While she didn’t take down Sun, she’s stiull nuts. She wants to be in control and she wants those guns.
I wanna know how they got those guns in the first place. There’s something creepy going on.
The others and the Zeke Squad would be wise to move on the Oceanic survivors now since they are all kinds of scattered and confused. Yes, SO glad that stupid timer is going down to 0. Maybe the whole island will go up in nuclear dust and we can get on with the rest of our lives.
February 9th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
anna lucia is nothing but trouble. i’m waiting for her to do something insane. totally betray jack and everyone. locke too. i clearly see that brewing. BUT it might be another “for the greater good” type thing. some manipulation due to the lostaways inability to take direction. i just don’t know. middle of season 2 of this freaking series and we don’t know who’s good, bad, or ugly. *BLAM* (ed. - spamalot)
something tells me the timer thing is a trick. i have a funny feeling about it NEXT EPISODE. i’m still convinced they’re saving it the season finale. watch.
oh, and call me a sicko–but i can’t wait to see Sayid the Torturer in action. he’s looking for some meat to carve. you’s know that it’s his episode next week, right? teh hawtness.
spam, the island icu with jack crack was hilarious. i can’t stop snickering over that.
February 9th, 2006 at 4:07 pm
According to the episode’s press release, the next episode is all about Sawyer blackmailing hurley into helping him kill some monster that’s been stalking Sawyer. That’s probably the real reason he stole the guns.
Also, I think we’re gonna find out why Hurley ain’t losing weight…
February 10th, 2006 at 9:01 am
Another geeky LOST tidbit fer ya:
According to wikipedia, ‘In “The Awful Truth”, an episode of Alias (another J.J. Abrams creation), “You All Everybody” is playing in the background at a party.’
That means that “Alias” and “Lost” both take place in the same universe.
Wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut???
February 10th, 2006 at 12:50 pm
Yeah, same universe. ORRRR it’s just a lil thang that the producer of BOTH shows threw in there. Mr. J.J. Abrams.
Who else picked up the Hurley comment about “any time.” WATCH for THAT. that’s a clue about the mythos. mark my words.
February 10th, 2006 at 1:04 pm
True dat. Forshadowing even…
Although the timewarp theory and every other one i can think of have already been knocked down by the creators. frrrpl.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_%28TV_series%29#Fan_speculation
February 10th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
ORRRRRRRRRR who cares because Jennifer Garner looks like a dude and gets squatted on the regs by Ben Whofleck.
February 10th, 2006 at 3:12 pm
MARCUS! that book written by the lostaway writer, the Bad Twin or whatever. it appears thats what Hurley was reading last episode. a manuscript. how neat. oh, and Gary Troup’s name all mixed up is Purgatory. And the “any time” line. it seems both of those are little treats for the fans, not plot points or clues. how neat.